European Exploration and Colonization #1
What is the reason for writing the Mayflower Compact in 1620 by Pilgrims?
Self-government (social contract)
What is the name of the document that was written as a social contract for self-government?
The Mayflower Compact of 1620.
Which European power came to the New World for Religious Freedom, Land, & Profits?
England
Enslaved persons in the North worked trade-related jobs whereas in the South, enslaved people worked in what what?
- as craftsmen on plantations
- in gold and silver mines
- in cash crop plantations
- as merchants in trade
cash crop plantations
The highest social class of English people in the colonies
Gentry
The Plantation System required long growing seasons, demand for labor, and what?
- Rich Soil
- Ship Building
- "Bread Basket"
- Sugar Cane
Rich Soil
The middle colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
The New England Colonies
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
13 Colonies divided in 3 Regional parts
The New England Colonies, The Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies
What reason did the New England colonies established for? Colonies were: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland.
Religious Freedom
the middle class
Which group of English colonists settled in Maryland in order to avoid religious persecution?
- Quakers
- Puritans
- Catholics
- Pilgrims
Catholics
Rice, Indigo & Tobacco were important agricultural products of which colonial region?
The Southern Colonies
Rice, Indigo & Tobacco were important agricultural products of which colonial region?
What is Southern Colonies
Which social class was primarily made up of farmers who worked their own land, skilled craft workers, and some tradespeople
the middle class
Why did France colonize North America?
To profit from trading furs and other goods.
Which colony was established to protect the rest of the colonies from Spanish Florida?
Georgia
What is the initial reason for Columbus and other European explorers traveling to the Western Hemisphere?
Find an all-water route to Asia (Northwest Passage)
Social class indentured servants were in
lower class
Which of the following colonies where NOT established for religion reasons?
A. Plymouth (Massachusetts)
B. Jamestown
C. Georgia
D. Pennsylvania
E. Maryland
B. Jamestown
C. Georgia
Which country's reason for colonization in the New World consisted of fur trade and creating alliances with Native Americans?
What is France.
Economic policy where the mother country profits from its colonies raw materials.
Mercantilism
Which European country came for God, Gold, & Glory and was the 1st to come to the New World?
Spain
What is the name of the system established after the Native Americans in slave labor died of disease ?
Transatlantic Slave Trade (triangular slave trade)
Which Colonial Regions has fertile soil, flat land, swift rivers and mining and trading?
Middle Colonies